WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Leave No Doubt 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:04.480 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:06.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:15.800 Cowboys Let's go. Are you ready for a break? 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:16.360 Yes? 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:18.239 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:19.040 Absolutely? 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:21.160 Ready for a break? 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:21.480 Yeah? 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:23.400 And so much for that. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.800 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:35.760 with Mbar Garcia, Brian brought Us, Patrick Walker, and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.200 It is Friday, January fifth, twenty twenty four, Season nineteen, 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.640 episode number one oh two. Welcome to the latest edition 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.040 of The Break. We are alive from the s WBC 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.519 Mortgage studios at the Star and today we get you 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.560 ready for Cowboys versus Commanders. It is a final game 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.720 with the season. Terry Jones, in his radio address a 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:57.000 few minutes ago, made the statement, this is a playoff game. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.240 We're playing Sunday and we have to win this game. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.040 It is a critical game for the Cowboys. I think 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.240 we all agree on that it is about home feel 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.839 advantage for them, and that's their fastest and easiest way 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:09.840 to ensure they have home feel advantage at least for 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:11.200 the first two rounds. 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.200 Of the playoffs. So let's dive in. 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.840 Let's first start with injuries, because there is a really 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:20.120 really interesting group of injuries, not only for the Cowboys 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:21.720 but also for the Washington Commanders. 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:23.640 Patrick run it down. 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:25.680 All right, y'all bear with me, because it's a lot 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.200 going on on both sides. So let's start with our hometown, 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:32.280 hometown Cowboys. Good news. Ric o'dowdle was upgraded to full 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:36.759 practice on yesterday with that ankle, so check he's back. Well, 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:38.880 you know that'll be guaranteed if he gets no game 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.319 designation today, but looks like he's back. Jonathan Hankins suffered 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.880 no setbacks in his return to practice. He was a 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.960 getting limited on Yesterday Thursday, but still trending towards possibly 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:54.200 check returning. Tyler Smith no change in his situation. Like 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.640 Brian said yesterday, likely a game time decision. They rested 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.200 him again yesterday, did not participate with that go on 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:01.120 Plantar Fascia. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:02.720 We'll see what his status is. 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.800 I think it will probably be doubtful full game designation, 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:06.520 but we'll see. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.320 How they play that out. Not so good. 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.400 Dorian's armstrong popped up on the injury report and he 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.480 didn't go down to limit it. He went from full 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.720 to D and P so he did not participate with 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.760 an ankle injury. Keep an eye on that. Armstrong obviously 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.000 has been having a strong season one of his best 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.000 Chill and Chauncey Ghoston now joined one Ye Thomas and 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:28.040 Malik Hooker as battling the bug that's been going around 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.560 so illness designation. They were both ghosting and IDOGA d 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.120 n P did not participate on yesterday. Hooker's also dealing 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.400 with that ankle injury, So those you want to keep 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:36.920 an eye on. 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:41.800 Has anyone, sorry, has anyone missed, because again because of illness, 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.360 I don't remember. I think they've all ended up playing. 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:46.840 I think when Hooker ended up missing it was because 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:48.720 it was because of the ankle. 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.679 So nothing comes to mind, but something tells me, yeah, 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.239 someone probably. 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:53.799 Did, but I can't. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:55.120 I can't remember anything. 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.160 Michael played through his and then. 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:58.240 Uh, most people have. 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:00.799 Wasn't Jayron run and caught the book? 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.440 I believe it's made its way around the defensive back 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.320 room and the defensive line room as well. But hopefully 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.080 that trend stays stays because they're battling it right now. 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:14.840 Now let's slip to the commanders huge. Jonathan Allen still 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.600 did not participate in practice on yesterday. I checked on 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.880 his status this morning as the Commanders start practice and 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:22.560 he is D and P again today. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.160 So that means Jonathan Allen. 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.880 Will have going the entire week without practicing with that 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:27.720 knee injury. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.520 Is that a situation, just real quick? Is that a 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.720 situation like with Tyron Smith? You always have to ask 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:34.400 that with veteran players where they just kind of let 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.280 him kind of go through the week and then he 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:37.160 plays on Sunday. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.440 I talked to some people at the Commanders yesterday. They 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.400 got a lot of guys right now that are asking 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.440 why why do we have to play? 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.440 It's a fair question to that point. 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.480 And if you're ready to go to the Caribbean, and 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.760 if you know, Jonathan Allen has been his voicedest displeasure 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:56.520 throughout the year. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:58.200 Yeah, that's the fact, and he is. 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.960 He's still with the knee. They have a lot of 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.560 veteran players right now that are not interested in playing football. 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:09.440 They understand the coaching situation. Uh, you know, there's coaches 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.600 on that staff that are coaching for jobs, maybe not 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:16.680 with the Commanders but with other organizations. Maybe a new 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.080 coach coming in it says, hey, this guy does a 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.320 good job. With our tight ends. I want to keep 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.080 him around. I like him. You know, maybe ownership says, 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.000 you know, hey, we need to keep this guy. So 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:30.120 they're in a really terrible situation right now. And they're 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.520 in a terrible situation because, uh, they're they've got a 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.919 lot of veteran players that are just they're they're done, 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:42.719 they've had enough, and so they're interested in playing young players. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.280 But they're that they that they understand what's ahead of 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.080 them and what's about to happen as soon as that 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.560 game's over. I still always feel like you need to 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.560 be nervous. You just don't know how a game is 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.640 going to go. But the way the commanders are looking 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.400 at this at certain key spots would both well for 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:01.120 the Cowboys. 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:02.640 But wait, there's more. 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.440 So you go to the commander's secondary. So you know, 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.480 Kendall Fuller starting nickelback, still did not practice with the 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.520 knee issue. Also didn't practice, isn't set to practice today 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:18.600 on Friday, So there you go. Cam Currow didn't practice. 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.240 Quad injury safety, Christian Holmes back up rotational cornerback did 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.200 not practice, still in concussion protocol. Now here's another big 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.880 one for them. Casey two Hill defensive end. He has 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.560 five sacks on the season. Downgraded to limited, so he's 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.479 battling through a shoulder injury now after being full participant 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.960 earlier this week. And then you flip to the offense 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.320 starting right tackle Andrew Wilie. He's still limited with his elbow. 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:44.080 But here's another massive one. Curtis Samuel was downgraded to DMP. 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.760 Did not participate on yesterday with a hamstring injury. So 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.719 it's a soft tissue injury, and you know how tricky 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:50.760 those can be, so on both sides of the ball. 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:54.320 For Washington, like Brian said, be it a mix of 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:59.560 true injury and or the players saying to themselves business decision. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.680 They got a lot going on over there. But that 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.040 just really makes it more of a trap game if 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:06.159 you ask me exactly. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.240 The last thing I want is the is the are 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.440 the cowboy players reading that and saying, oh, well, they're 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.880 giving up and not taking it seriously. You got to 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.880 go in there and really put them away. And I 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:18.560 know I've heard I think I've heard you say this, Brian, 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.719 and these kind of situations got to go into a 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.240 game and just kind of knock the will out of 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.320 them early and If you do that, they do tend 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.200 to buckle and fold in the game. 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.000 You have to destroy their will to compete. Yeah, it 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.640 is what you have to do. And so you know, 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:37.240 this is a hot t shirt game, but the message 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.680 needs to be made. You need to go and win 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.600 however means you can. I don't care if it's one 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.360 point or one hundred points. Just go find a way 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.320 to win that football game. Because really, and I've said 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.880 this in a couple of different platforms, now, I do 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.960 believe your Super Bowl life is depending on it. I 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.400 just don't see this team going on the road and 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.840 having to win a bunch of games. You know, all 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.480 the home games. You've put sixteen straight games at home. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.840 There's a reason why you play a lot better here. 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.360 So to me, that's the focus right now. I don't 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.680 care about one or one hundred. Just find a way 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.440 to go in there. Don't get stupid penalties, don't you know. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.480 Turn the ball over and just play to the level 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.680 that you can play at, and you will destroy their 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.080 will to compete. You will be a better football team 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.240 than them when it's all said and done, when you 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.080 line up, you will be the better football team. Go 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.760 play like the better football team and go finish this 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:31.160 thing off. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.000 The perfect situation for the Washington Commanders would be to 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:39.160 play enough competitive football to dispel any narratives about obvious tanking, 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.040 but to play just poorly enough wherein you don't win 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:43.240 this game and you secure your. 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:44.200 Number two overall pick. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.040 But here's where it gets dangerous even with that as 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.920 far as the Cowboys are concerned, because assuming they go 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.240 with this perfect scenario, we want to remain competitive through 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.760 three and a half quarters whatever. But the Cowboys have 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:58.280 shown that they can inflict self you know, self inflicted 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:02.040 penalty question, right, So if they're playing just well enough 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.480 to lose but look like they could win, and then 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.880 you have two or three penalties that actually accidentally push 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.480 them over into the win column. So to Bryan's point, 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.360 you need to go in there and demoralize them early, 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.160 hopefully get off to a fast start, and then those 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:18.360 guys will start making more and more business decisions and saying, 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.880 you know what I forgot, We actually do suck, so 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:22.160 let's just go ahead and finish this. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.560 I would yeah, I would hate to be working in 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.960 this front office or coaching staff if they lose this 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:32.160 football game. I honestly would I don't think that would 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.520 be a good situation from anybody. You know, you need 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:39.520 to coach like you need to have that that desire 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.320 to go win this game, because, like I say, there's 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.000 there's a lot riding on the line for the Dallas 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:46.800 Cowboys and this one a lot. 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:48.880 With Ever, with all that being said, do you guys 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.600 look at guys like Tyler Smith and Jonathan Hankins and say, 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.360 all hands are on deck, we can't afford if you 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.480 can play, even if you're not one hundred percent, if 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.480 you can play, you need to be out there. Or 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.280 do you say, let's be smart because there still are 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:03.960 playoff games, we have to be aware of it. 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.600 I don't feel like a game where you can win 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.720 it without those guys. To me, it feels like that. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:14.760 But then again, I mean I was ready to sit 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:19.960 down Tyron Smith, I Lee. So I don't know. It 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.160 is one of those things that, man, you do not 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.199 you want to have those guys fully healthy and available 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.240 for the playoffs, But the implication of having those home 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.720 games it's so big and so important. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.520 So I don't I feel like you can win this 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.120 game without Tyler Smith and Jonathan Hankins. But I feel 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.520 like you you sit Tyler Smith because there's not any 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.320 rush there that needs to be worked off. He needs 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.680 to rest that foot and be ready for two weeks 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.640 from now. Jonathan Hankins, however, has missed multiple games. He 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.720 has to get his wheels greased. He has to get right. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.680 So ideally you go out there, you get him playing 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.440 first half. Hopefully the game is out of hand. But 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.240 in you know, in the Cowboys control, you start pulling guys. Hey, 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.760 Jonathan Hankins, good job, grease you. Willis come off the field, 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.839 Dak Prescott, come off the field, get ready for Cooper rush. 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:08.559 So ideally that should be the game plan. But I 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:10.680 would like to see Hankins on the field. I would 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:12.520 not like to see Tyler Smith on the field. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:16.120 Yeah, the injury to Jonathan Allen and kind of where 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.720 I'm here and that's gonna go. And I hope I'm 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.160 right about this as somebody telling me from the commanders. 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.360 But if he doesn't play, I feel a lot better 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:27.079 about Tyler Smith not playing in this football game. TJ. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.360 Bass has done a fine job. My concern is like 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.480 the Rams obviously don't care whether they're the sixth seed 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.560 of the seventh seed, and there's a possibility that you 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.280 could catch them as the seventh seed depending on some 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.040 wins and losses along the way. With some of these teams, 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.600 Mike concern thought they were I thought they were solidified. 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:48.800 They had they can drop this out. 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.880 They could drop to seven. Yeah, so depending on if 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.600 you get a Green Bay win and a Rams loss, 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.920 there's kind of some serien nose where they could drop 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.520 down to six or seven. And if that that's the case, 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.800 now you're dealing with that, Aaron Donald, So, I need 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.080 uh I need Uhler, I need Tyler as healthy as 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:08.560 possible if that's the case. 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.680 So there you go, man, that's a yeah. I didn't 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.240 realize they they were still positive. 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.160 The Rams don't care that far. You know what, the Rams. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.760 This is why the Rams are scary. They don't care 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.800 if they're the sixth, the seventh. They know they're going 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.280 on the road, and they're telling you right now, we 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.360 don't care if we're gonna have to play the two 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:27.920 or the three, we don't care. 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:29.880 And they started saying that they were sitting guys this week. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.440 Oh they're gonna sit their whole team. They're good the. 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.400 Cars and so on. In the forty nine is interesting enough. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.280 That's gonna be an interesting game because I don't think 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:38.400 anybody's playing their guys. 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.960 They're they're they're completely sitting everybody that they could be. 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.360 They can finish the year ten and seven. The Rams, 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.400 they don't care. They just don't care. They're got They're 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.280 thinking more about the health of their team, whether they 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.280 have to go travel as the six or go travel 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.240 at the seventh. They don't. They don't have time for 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:55.680 your Uh, they don't have time. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.120 They don't you know, that's what makes them scary to No. 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.599 Yeah, when you get a team that has the attitude 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:07.000 like we don't play anybody. Yeah, we'll show up at Detroit. 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.880 We don't care. We'll show up in Dallas. We don't 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.679 even know they got hammered here. We don't care. If 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.160 we're the seventh seed, we'll show up. 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.400 You would think they'd be like, there's incentive for us 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.400 to play, to be able to go to Detroit, versus. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.960 After what happened to him in Dallas. It's like it's 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.119 it's like like our fear of going to San Francisco. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.000 They have none of that. Now we're like, oh God, 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:28.960 please you gotta get home games, you know, if you've 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.520 got to set this thing up. You know, they're they're like, 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.640 we don't have time for your six seven doesn't matter. 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.840 We're gonna rest our team and we're gonna be ready 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.599 when the thing starts. That's scary. 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.040 Yeah, I didn't know. You just introduced something I really 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:43.440 wasn't wasn't paying attention to. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.120 So we'll think. We'll see how that goes. Are we 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.360 gonna take our final first break when we come back. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.800 Uh Amber has a little game for us, and then 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:52.600 we'll get to the final segment. We'll have some predictions 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.160 for you guys. Tell you what the keys are for 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:55.800 the Cowboys offensively and defensively. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.480 We'll back Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.280 Tod thought it would be secure, did you? And the 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.240 Cheatah Savannah. 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Voting ends on January eighth, 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:45.840 so go vote for Tank. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:47.840 Welcome back to second segment of the Break Life in 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.400 the SWBC Mortgage Studios. At the start segment brought to 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:54.240 you by blockchain dot Com Amber, you got a game 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:54.600 for us. 0:15:54.880 --> 0:16:00.240 Yes, no, we haven't done that long. I forgot about 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.120 the game. You reminded me, So I came up with 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:06.000 something really fast, and I did this arts and craft 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:11.080 right before the show with some utensils. So basically, this 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.720 is a game called who am I. I'm gonna it's 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.200 kind of like trivia, and I'm gonna list three things 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.120 about somebody and then you guys got to put it 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.400 up and then guess who it is. Yes, since we 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.040 don't have you know, it's radio. But we'll deal with this. 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:34.840 Derek you get the knife because you like throwing jabs. 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:43.240 Ryan you get the spoon because you like gumbo and 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.880 all that stuff. Very you get the fork because you 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:52.840 don't like soup, all right, and then Chris is gonna 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.520 since I'll be reading, Chris is also going to help 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.800 judge who you know. I don't. I don't like no cheaters, 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.440 So y'all have no I put it out. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.240 Everybody with it. 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:09.040 She gave us the yeah, but I'll read three things. 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.040 I can add a bonus if needed. 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.720 And you guys are these players? 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:15.760 Yes, you guys got to put it up as soon 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.359 as I'm done talking. Okay, all right, the. 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:20.360 First only when you're done talking, we can't do it, Earli, Yes, 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:21.080 can you. 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.399 Say your name is the buzzer as well for our 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:24.520 podcast listeners. 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.399 Okay, sure that makes sense. Yeah, so put it up 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.400 and say yeah, I got it. 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:33.600 There perfect, Like, okay, we'll try. I could also serve 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.080 as a bad example too, if you like. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:40.639 Al Right, okay, first one, and I think these are 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.560 all easy, but because maybe I know the find out 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:47.080 all right. As a senior wide receiver, I caught forty 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.960 two passes for six hundred and seventy eight yards and 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:55.560 six touchdowns. I graduated with a degree in integrative biology 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:01.360 in twenty twelve. I was drafted in the third round. Bye, Jacksonville. 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.919 Oh, these aren't just Cowboys players. These the other. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.240 These are current Cowboys player coboys plays. 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:11.040 It's wide receiver twenty twelve draft. 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:18.679 By Jacksonville, senior wide receiver. Do you guys want a bonus? 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.800 Obviously have to active, Chris. 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:27.040 They're all active? All right? 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:27.640 Yeah? 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.200 Give it away, Chris, Can I guess? 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:32.600 Go ahead, Chris, Yeah, go ahead. 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:37.720 Anger Brian Anger was a receiver. 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.160 Yep, he was a receiver as a senior. 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:46.879 Okay, wait a senior in high school? College? Uh, that 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:47.760 will make a difference. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:50.560 I think maybe it was high school. 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:51.480 It had to be high school. 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:52.679 Okay, college. 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.800 You said these were easy, all right, thought you didn't like? 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.520 Chris gets the point, thank you? 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.880 Look all right, I don't got it. 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.159 It is not that we don't know. 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.760 I don't know the bonus question was gonna be. The 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.280 bonus thing was gonna be. I've been invited to Orlando, 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.920 but I'm trying to book a fly to Las Vegas. Okay, 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:16.320 that narrow is it down? 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:17.280 That wouldn't help me? 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.440 Okay, you guys, I know that. 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:22.439 I'm just saying I would have still been thinking what 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:24.160 wide receiver. Other than. 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:33.000 That was a little tough, but okay, next one, next one. 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:38.399 Fans wanted me gone after my big contract renewal because 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:43.320 I wasn't meeting expectations. I'm a fun guy, but don't 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:49.760 mess with me major munications at state. 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:56.320 Okay, go ahead there. I knew it was right. You 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:58.480 got Marcus Lauren. 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:00.720 That one was That's easy. Oh that was it? 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:02.720 Yeah yeah yeah, all right. 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:10.520 So I will, I will because I was right. 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.160 How about this, if you know the answer, just say 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:13.560 your name. 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:14.640 All right, Well that's what I said. 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:18.119 I had, Brian, but put up your stuff. I worked 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:19.360 hard on those, Okay. 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.120 So hard. Yeah, with the whole puntion. 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:24.480 Of the big all right, next one, Michael, Oh. 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.760 Michael Patrick won that one. 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:34.800 This is off the rails, Gallup, off the rails. 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:40.040 Of the game, Michael Gallup. I'll eliminate that one. Okay, 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:44.320 next one. In college, I was one of four sets 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:48.600 of brothers on the team, graduated with a degree in 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:53.520 management entrepreneurship, played one hundred and fifty two games and 0:20:53.680 --> 0:21:01.760 only missed ten. Four brothers Zach Morton, Yes. 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:05.960 They have four sets of brothers. 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:12.960 Yeah yeah, all right, next one, next one, don't be 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:17.600 committing no crimes around me because I'm major in criminal justice. 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:23.800 Oh No, shoplifters, don't worry. I can catch them because 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.359 I'm fast. On game days, you can catch me playing 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:37.439 special teams or an offense. Patrick, Yes, okay, Derek is 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:38.439 clueless on this. 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:43.960 Do you think about how do you think about this? Game? 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:46.280 Is it? 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:45.480 Is? It? 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:46.600 Is it? 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:47.159 Do you know? 0:21:52.520 --> 0:22:02.000 I only have two more? Okay, people say they hate me, 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:05.000 but they can't stop talking about me. I have a 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:14.280 master in workforce leadership. My name rhymes with champagne. Patrick 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:21.320 rain yep rain to coulda prescott. 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:31.200 That was not rhyme rhyme. 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:33.680 That was an easy one. 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:40.800 All right, last one, Come on, last one, Derek. 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:44.200 Maybe if you and I trade, maybe maybe I'll try anything. 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:47.280 Yeah. 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:50.760 In my spare time, I like to rest and sleep. 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:54.960 I have pride. Females are in charge of the food, 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:58.440 but I am not. In my case, I do the honting. 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:07.240 Derek Michael, alright, good, all right, thank you. 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:08.880 It was this. 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:11.880 It was the got it include the pride. 0:23:12.280 --> 0:23:13.840 The pride was that was the cue. 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:19.440 All of it was about a lion, restless, sleep, the pride, 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:22.280 and then females are in charge of the food. But 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:23.920 he does in. 0:23:23.880 --> 0:23:28.400 This case, Patrick, Yeah, finally took one. 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:36.600 All right, sorry, next week. Sorry that it's great. 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:37.280 It's a great game. 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:40.520 Job you guys, good job. 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:43.960 You just got terrible contestants. Yeah, we're bad, not you, 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:47.960 we're bad, terrible us. 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:51.960 Yeah, well started right, Okay. 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:56.280 Okay, it's true. But when I saw it, I was like, oh, 0:23:56.400 --> 0:23:58.040 no one would guess that for sure. 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:01.000 Masters, you know what, you know your audience. 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:04.880 No one was going to get to get interesting fact 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:05.640 about him. 0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:08.439 All right, final jeopardy question. You don't lead with the 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:09.640 final jeopardy questions. 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:14.800 Remember I did this right before the show, so it 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:16.400 was all on the fly. 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:18.240 I was in the blue ten after that one with 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:18.919 the concussion. 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:23.240 Yeah, all right, let's duck in. Let's talk about the 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:26.680 Cowboys versus the Commanders. Let's start with offensive key. Give 0:24:26.720 --> 0:24:28.920 me an offensive key, will go around the table. Offensive 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:31.880 key for the Cowboys in this game, I'll start with you. 0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:37.520 Amber, offensive key. Run the freaking ball, like, find a 0:24:37.520 --> 0:24:41.880 way to run the ball. And uh, obviously you won 0:24:42.000 --> 0:24:44.960 the the passing game. We're talking about the Cowboys, coy 0:24:46.160 --> 0:24:48.760 you won the passing game to still be what it's 0:24:48.800 --> 0:24:51.960 been recently, but also show up on the road. I 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:55.040 think that's sometimes something that kind of disappears a little 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:57.720 bit when on the road just by mistakes, their own 0:24:58.240 --> 0:25:01.879 mistakes and committed penalty or errors. But this is a 0:25:01.920 --> 0:25:04.239 game where I hope we can see a little bit 0:25:04.280 --> 0:25:07.680 of the running game, just to go into the playoffs 0:25:07.720 --> 0:25:11.600 with a little spark in that area where you're just 0:25:11.640 --> 0:25:14.600 not flat out, shut out and not able to run 0:25:14.680 --> 0:25:18.320 anything whatsoever. So to me, I would like to see 0:25:18.320 --> 0:25:19.400 some balance in that. 0:25:21.560 --> 0:25:23.879 Throw the ball as much as the weather will permit 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:26.800 you to do. So it's a secondary that even when 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:30.800 they're completely healthy, they're not really good at defending and covering, 0:25:31.119 --> 0:25:33.480 and you add to the fact they're ravaged by injury. 0:25:33.560 --> 0:25:38.120 Right now, you should have more time ideally to drop 0:25:38.160 --> 0:25:40.159 back and throw the ball. If Jonathan Allen is in 0:25:40.160 --> 0:25:42.280 fact not in the game, that should alleviate some of 0:25:42.320 --> 0:25:45.720 that interior pressure, those challenges up front. So past the ball, 0:25:45.760 --> 0:25:49.560 attack those corners, young and veteran, because it's going to 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:52.119 be there for you again, weather permitting. But I'm with you. 0:25:52.119 --> 0:25:54.080 Amber said it earlier this week. I would like them 0:25:54.080 --> 0:25:56.280 to get some semblance of a solid run game as well. 0:25:56.720 --> 0:25:58.120 I would like for them to get up to the fast, 0:25:58.119 --> 0:26:01.000 start passing the ball, and then kind of work in 0:26:01.040 --> 0:26:03.320 the run game to start managing the clock in salting 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:06.119 that away, and then hopefully we can go into the 0:26:06.160 --> 0:26:09.280 playoffs confident not only in the passing attack, which I 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:11.199 think we're all confident in for the most part, but 0:26:11.400 --> 0:26:12.480 rushing attack as well. 0:26:12.800 --> 0:26:15.439 Get everybody involved. Yeah, the last time you beat the 0:26:15.440 --> 0:26:19.000 Commanders on Thanksgiving, you got everybody involved, whether it was Turpin, 0:26:19.720 --> 0:26:22.679 whether it was Gallop, whether you know, everybody was involved 0:26:22.680 --> 0:26:25.280 in this game. Pollard ran the ball really well. I 0:26:25.320 --> 0:26:27.720 feel like though that the best way to beat the 0:26:27.760 --> 0:26:31.879 Commanders is against with matchups. They're going to struggle with 0:26:31.920 --> 0:26:35.320 the matchups. So the aggressive part of it is great. 0:26:35.400 --> 0:26:37.920 I think that's the angle you take. But make sure 0:26:37.960 --> 0:26:40.320 you get everybody involved to win this game. 0:26:40.560 --> 0:26:40.880 You guys. 0:26:40.960 --> 0:26:43.720 A couple of you guys mentioned the running game. Pollard 0:26:43.760 --> 0:26:45.560 had an interesting quote earlier this week. He said, I 0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:48.080 thought I would probably have had a better year than 0:26:48.119 --> 0:26:50.440 I'm having now. I think he's admitting to the fact 0:26:50.440 --> 0:26:52.200 that this hasn't quite been the year that he would 0:26:52.200 --> 0:26:54.400 have expected or won it. I paid a little bit, 0:26:54.480 --> 0:26:56.400 yeah did, but it was a one year deal, and 0:26:56.440 --> 0:26:58.440 so now he's going to be back up this year. 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:02.320 What specific there was one thing that you could identify 0:27:02.359 --> 0:27:04.720 for him that you would say, hey, just do this 0:27:04.840 --> 0:27:07.480 one thing better. It would make the difference in the 0:27:07.520 --> 0:27:10.439 Cowboys running game and in his own abilities and what 0:27:10.440 --> 0:27:11.680 he's doing right now with the Cowboys. 0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:15.960 He's averaging a yard less when you talk about to 0:27:16.080 --> 0:27:18.000 and through the hole. There was a time when you 0:27:18.040 --> 0:27:21.560 looked at him when with first contact he's averaging like 0:27:21.640 --> 0:27:24.119 a yard less And maybe that's a little bit about 0:27:24.119 --> 0:27:27.040 what's going on with the offensive line and then not 0:27:27.119 --> 0:27:29.560 being able to really kind of secure. But there have 0:27:29.560 --> 0:27:31.520 been times where things have opened up for him and 0:27:31.560 --> 0:27:33.720 he hasn't really taken advantage of it. You watch the 0:27:33.720 --> 0:27:36.160 Commander's game, it's the best he's run the ball all year. 0:27:36.440 --> 0:27:38.480 So that's kind of my hope that maybe he gets 0:27:38.520 --> 0:27:42.399 that going again. But if there was something, if he 0:27:42.400 --> 0:27:45.280 could have his burst back, if he could have that burst, 0:27:45.320 --> 0:27:48.440 and I think that's the one thing that's really kind 0:27:48.440 --> 0:27:50.120 of eluded him this year. 0:27:51.320 --> 0:27:53.560 I'd like to see more of the home run ball 0:27:53.680 --> 0:27:56.840 as a receiver out of the backfield. I think the 0:27:56.920 --> 0:28:02.600 fact that he has through sixteen games no receiving touchdowns whatsoever. 0:28:02.800 --> 0:28:06.240 He's down almost one hundred yards receiving over the previous year. 0:28:06.640 --> 0:28:09.240 That's an element of his game that has always made 0:28:09.320 --> 0:28:12.719 him explosive, and I think that opening up or that 0:28:12.800 --> 0:28:14.880 getting back to where it needs to be will help 0:28:14.920 --> 0:28:17.640 open up his ability to run because it changes how 0:28:17.680 --> 0:28:20.479 he can be defended by linebackers and cornerbacks and safety 0:28:20.560 --> 0:28:22.439 is trying to play in the box. So for me, 0:28:22.560 --> 0:28:23.960 I just I want to see him. You know, you 0:28:24.240 --> 0:28:27.680 talk about like the focus drop on that middle slant 0:28:27.680 --> 0:28:28.440 against the Lions. 0:28:28.560 --> 0:28:29.560 Can't have that happen. 0:28:29.640 --> 0:28:31.600 So when he gets the ball in his hands as 0:28:31.600 --> 0:28:33.080 a target out of the backfield, I just want to 0:28:33.080 --> 0:28:34.760 see him hit more of those home runs, get more 0:28:34.760 --> 0:28:36.520 of those big gainers, because I think that's the biggest 0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:37.480 part that's been lacking this. 0:28:37.480 --> 0:28:37.960 Year for him. 0:28:38.400 --> 0:28:41.440 Yeah, to me, I would say think, but don't overthink. 0:28:41.640 --> 0:28:44.520 I feel that at times, and we've seen him in 0:28:44.560 --> 0:28:47.240 the past, so he has the instincts and being able 0:28:47.280 --> 0:28:50.120 to find the whole and know where to go first 0:28:50.200 --> 0:28:54.880 and take that initial jump at the goal. But sometimes 0:28:54.920 --> 0:28:57.240 now I feel like maybe, and this is just me 0:28:58.200 --> 0:29:01.600 assuming that he's just overthinking things and just kind of 0:29:01.840 --> 0:29:06.680 runs without really analyzing the full feel and everything that's 0:29:06.720 --> 0:29:11.360 going on, like the prediction aspect of it. Yeah, the 0:29:11.440 --> 0:29:15.560 feel and the patience and the really going back to 0:29:15.640 --> 0:29:19.680 him playing just football and just kind of let go 0:29:19.760 --> 0:29:23.320 whatever is in your head and just trust yourself. Basically, 0:29:23.440 --> 0:29:23.920 do you think. 0:29:23.760 --> 0:29:26.480 The money got to him? Do you think the money 0:29:26.600 --> 0:29:29.720 of having to try and live up to that the tag? 0:29:30.200 --> 0:29:32.720 If I had to guess, I would say what probably 0:29:32.800 --> 0:29:35.600 got to him more was having. 0:29:35.320 --> 0:29:37.960 To be the man is than the money. 0:29:38.080 --> 0:29:40.320 I just I just think that there is something too, 0:29:41.040 --> 0:29:42.600 and I think it happens. You see, it happened with 0:29:42.680 --> 0:29:44.800 running backs all the time, especially running backs who haven't 0:29:44.840 --> 0:29:47.200 been used to that. And you remember think back in college, 0:29:47.240 --> 0:29:49.800 he wasn't a single guy. He was a he was 0:29:50.120 --> 0:29:53.800 a guy that was and so when you when you 0:29:53.840 --> 0:29:55.800 think about it from that standpoint, I think that that's 0:29:55.840 --> 0:29:57.080 the part that I would look at. 0:29:57.120 --> 0:29:57.880 And again I don't know. 0:29:57.920 --> 0:29:59.880 I have not talked to him personally about this, so 0:30:00.040 --> 0:30:03.080 this is all speculation, but I would guess that that's 0:30:03.240 --> 0:30:05.600 maybe part of what we're seeing because there are those 0:30:05.640 --> 0:30:07.680 moments when I kind of agree with you amber that 0:30:08.280 --> 0:30:10.880 maybe he just doesn't play. He may be thinking a 0:30:10.920 --> 0:30:14.080 little bit too much some of the drop pass that happened, 0:30:14.160 --> 0:30:17.080 you know. I know, Brian, you said it was ripped off. 0:30:17.200 --> 0:30:19.240 But I do think there's been some other moments where 0:30:19.240 --> 0:30:21.680 I was like, you know, that's not like I'm used 0:30:21.720 --> 0:30:23.920 to him like making the play when it's there, And 0:30:23.960 --> 0:30:26.360 there have been moments when the play was there and 0:30:26.400 --> 0:30:28.239 he just didn't make it for whatever reason. And I 0:30:28.320 --> 0:30:30.200 just wonder if it's just a little bit too much 0:30:30.720 --> 0:30:33.040 to be in that situation where you're the man, everybody's 0:30:33.040 --> 0:30:34.640 looking at you, and you got to make the playoff. 0:30:34.800 --> 0:30:36.200 He you know, he could have been the man in 0:30:36.240 --> 0:30:38.280 that forty nine or playoff game last year, and if 0:30:38.320 --> 0:30:41.440 you really watched the game, he was having a great game. Yeah, 0:30:41.480 --> 0:30:43.800 and he probably could have been the difference maker until 0:30:43.800 --> 0:30:46.560 he got hurt. Yeah, you know. Unfortunately though, that was 0:30:46.600 --> 0:30:47.960 his opportunity to be the man. 0:30:48.040 --> 0:30:49.760 And but he wasn't the leader in that room. He 0:30:49.840 --> 0:30:52.600 wasn't he wasn't dealt the task of you're the leader 0:30:52.640 --> 0:30:54.960 of this room. Zeke was still there. Zeke was still 0:30:55.000 --> 0:30:56.680 the guy when there was a problem with the running 0:30:56.680 --> 0:30:59.040 game who everybody looked at. Everybody looked at Zeke. Right, 0:30:59.280 --> 0:31:01.960 that's a different when the media is looking at you like, hey, 0:31:02.000 --> 0:31:05.240 the running game isn't working, you're the problem, right, that's different. 0:31:05.320 --> 0:31:08.640 You know, it's the same reason that everyone loves Cooper 0:31:08.720 --> 0:31:11.160 Rush more than they love Dak Prescott. Not everyone, but 0:31:11.200 --> 0:31:13.320 there's a faction of fans that love Coop. It's always 0:31:13.320 --> 0:31:16.880 the guy behind the guy that gets then and then 0:31:16.920 --> 0:31:19.400 that's what happens all the pressures. Right, we talked about 0:31:19.400 --> 0:31:21.800 it running backs. You know, it happens with running backs, 0:31:21.800 --> 0:31:24.760 and you know it's going to happen continually with running 0:31:24.760 --> 0:31:27.360 backs and just other positions, skill positions, because whoever the 0:31:27.400 --> 0:31:30.000 guy is, unless they're going crazy, like you know, Ceedee 0:31:30.040 --> 0:31:32.200 Lamb is going right now, it's always going to be well, 0:31:32.360 --> 0:31:34.680 let the guy behind them play. So it's that it's 0:31:34.680 --> 0:31:37.520 the psychology. And I don't think it's much to do 0:31:37.920 --> 0:31:40.000 with the fact that he's getting ten point one million 0:31:40.080 --> 0:31:42.960 dollars on a franchise tag because he's this is still 0:31:42.960 --> 0:31:44.960 a contract year for him, This is still proven. He 0:31:45.120 --> 0:31:47.160 had to go out there and have a big year, 0:31:47.200 --> 0:31:50.000 and to his admission, he didn't have a big year. 0:31:50.040 --> 0:31:51.640 It's not up to his standard. It's not up to 0:31:51.640 --> 0:31:54.160 the Cowboys standard and it's not up to our standard 0:31:54.200 --> 0:31:56.880 as well. We can all you know, say that, admit that, 0:31:56.960 --> 0:31:59.800 but you know, I think it's just it's different when, 0:32:00.400 --> 0:32:03.600 like you said there, when you become the guy, right, so, 0:32:03.800 --> 0:32:06.520 Zeke stood in front of that train for years and 0:32:06.560 --> 0:32:10.400 that's what it became. But now Tony is RB one, 0:32:10.560 --> 0:32:12.440 the crowd gets put on your head. Now you start 0:32:12.440 --> 0:32:16.320 to realize what comes with that, the criticism from the media, 0:32:16.360 --> 0:32:18.480 the criticism from the fans, the fact that now they're 0:32:18.480 --> 0:32:20.360 calling for Rico doubt or like they were calling for 0:32:20.400 --> 0:32:23.000 you when you were playing behind Zeke. That's that's how 0:32:23.040 --> 0:32:25.280 it goes, the same way they were calling for Lance 0:32:25.320 --> 0:32:28.960 Dunbar when it was DeMarcus Murray fumbling the ball. 0:32:29.000 --> 0:32:30.760 Let's also be clear, I don't know that I necessarily 0:32:30.760 --> 0:32:32.920 think it's so much even just the fact that is 0:32:33.520 --> 0:32:36.080 the focus that has that that has that may have 0:32:36.120 --> 0:32:38.000 had made may have made the difference for him. I 0:32:38.040 --> 0:32:41.160 think it's also about just the fact that the workload 0:32:41.320 --> 0:32:44.520 is different. The expectation of the world was everywhere right, 0:32:44.560 --> 0:32:47.800 I mean, this is we we heard uh Skip Peete 0:32:47.840 --> 0:32:49.400 talked to he talked, I think he talked to you 0:32:49.440 --> 0:32:51.400 personally last year about this sledge. I know I had 0:32:51.440 --> 0:32:53.200 some conversations with him as well, and he was like, 0:32:53.600 --> 0:32:57.080 you know, everybody's calling for him to get more, but 0:32:57.160 --> 0:32:59.640 maybe more isn't better. Maybe maybe he's a guy that 0:32:59.760 --> 0:33:02.120 needs to have a certain amount. But when you're the 0:33:02.160 --> 0:33:04.680 man now, the expectation is you may go into some 0:33:04.720 --> 0:33:06.600 games and you need to just be the man. 0:33:06.640 --> 0:33:08.400 For most of the reps, like most of the game. 0:33:08.520 --> 0:33:10.479 And I think that's the part I'm a little bit like, 0:33:10.720 --> 0:33:11.360 maybe that's weird. 0:33:11.440 --> 0:33:13.920 I'm gonna get everybody in trouble here by asking this question. 0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:16.400 Then is that on him or is that on the 0:33:16.400 --> 0:33:20.000 front office for putting that on him? You know, they 0:33:20.000 --> 0:33:23.120 got rid of Zeke. They they gave it the franchise 0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:25.920 tag to Tony and they made him the number one back 0:33:26.000 --> 0:33:27.520 here and then and then you got rid of the 0:33:27.560 --> 0:33:32.080 guy who's telling us that you probably need to have 0:33:32.120 --> 0:33:33.080 two guys. 0:33:33.120 --> 0:33:36.400 Where I look at that, I think the Cowboys didn't 0:33:36.400 --> 0:33:39.280 do themselves any favors by not giving Tony Pollard a 0:33:39.360 --> 0:33:40.640 Tony Pollard, you know. 0:33:40.600 --> 0:33:40.960 What I mean? 0:33:41.280 --> 0:33:42.600 Like the thing about Zeke. 0:33:42.720 --> 0:33:45.120 Zeke had a Tony Pollard, right, and so it's nice 0:33:45.160 --> 0:33:48.640 to have that second guy who is comparable. Now, he 0:33:48.720 --> 0:33:50.200 may not be as good as you, but he has 0:33:50.240 --> 0:33:52.480 those skills right and he can he can make some 0:33:52.520 --> 0:33:54.560 big plays for you. And again this is not a 0:33:54.640 --> 0:33:57.480 knock on ric o'dowdele, but but ric o'doddle, if you 0:33:57.520 --> 0:33:59.720 would have gone out and then this draft gotten somebody 0:33:59.760 --> 0:34:02.600 in this second a third round with as a running 0:34:02.600 --> 0:34:05.640 back that that was a very capable back that, by 0:34:05.680 --> 0:34:08.480 the way, might be your starter a year or two 0:34:08.520 --> 0:34:10.799 from now. I think that does take some of the 0:34:10.800 --> 0:34:13.360 pressure off Tony because they can hit those big plays 0:34:13.520 --> 0:34:16.000 and they will have those moments in games that can 0:34:16.120 --> 0:34:19.280 can really really make a difference, and it forces a defense. 0:34:19.320 --> 0:34:21.440 It still keeps your running game going even though you're 0:34:21.440 --> 0:34:23.560 relying on this other guy, so you have two different roles. 0:34:23.560 --> 0:34:25.360 But I think that's where I would look at the 0:34:25.360 --> 0:34:28.040 front office and say, you didn't really help Tony Pollard 0:34:28.160 --> 0:34:29.520 by giving him a Tony Pollard. 0:34:29.719 --> 0:34:32.040 I think it goes to you made it a great point, 0:34:32.040 --> 0:34:35.560 and we've talked about this before going into the season. 0:34:35.719 --> 0:34:38.239 How would Tony Pollard look in the post zek era, 0:34:38.320 --> 0:34:40.520 And we said, what what would his running style look 0:34:40.600 --> 0:34:42.760 like and what would his accountabilities be with number one 0:34:42.840 --> 0:34:44.720 and credit to him in this particular aspect. 0:34:44.719 --> 0:34:47.800 His pass protection has has improved very assively. 0:34:47.880 --> 0:34:50.840 Yeah, so roses to Tony Pollard for improving in that, 0:34:51.000 --> 0:34:52.440 especially on a past happy team. 0:34:53.040 --> 0:34:53.680 So there you go. 0:34:53.960 --> 0:34:56.080 But he was going to be tasked with making more 0:34:56.080 --> 0:34:58.400 of those dirty runs and doing more of the heavy lifting, 0:34:58.640 --> 0:35:00.600 which of course is going to make it easier for 0:35:00.640 --> 0:35:02.480 a guy like Rico Dalda to then step in. And 0:35:02.520 --> 0:35:05.160 no knock to Rico because when he's healthy he has 0:35:05.440 --> 0:35:08.520 shown quickness and good vision and things like that. But 0:35:08.600 --> 0:35:11.319 it's just it's always easier on RB two when RB 0:35:11.480 --> 0:35:13.200 one is the one doing all the heavy lifting. And 0:35:13.280 --> 0:35:15.560 what Tony Pollard is finding out because he hasn't been 0:35:15.560 --> 0:35:18.360 that lead back since high school, what he's being reminded 0:35:18.400 --> 0:35:21.400 of but now at the NFL level is ah, this 0:35:21.400 --> 0:35:25.200 this gets tiring. Like, so you might be good in 0:35:25.239 --> 0:35:27.239 September by the time December rolls around. 0:35:27.320 --> 0:35:28.160 See this is why. 0:35:27.960 --> 0:35:30.960 Ezekiel Elliott was dealing with knee issues and PCO issues 0:35:31.000 --> 0:35:32.280 come late November December. 0:35:32.400 --> 0:35:34.520 It's a different workload, it's a different animal. 0:35:34.640 --> 0:35:37.840 So the best way that Tony Pollard, outside of the 0:35:37.880 --> 0:35:41.280 obvious which is more continuity and good blocking up front 0:35:41.280 --> 0:35:43.440 to open up those run lanes. But from a Tony 0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:46.120 Pollard as an individual standpoint, if he can get back 0:35:46.160 --> 0:35:48.640 to being explosive as a receiver out of the backfield, 0:35:48.840 --> 0:35:51.080 it just changes how they have to defend him. And 0:35:51.120 --> 0:35:53.520 I think that that would solve a lot of the 0:35:54.000 --> 0:35:59.520 where's his explosive ground game run? 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Before we make our 0:38:50.440 --> 0:38:52.000 picks real quick, we're going to go around the table. 0:38:52.040 --> 0:38:54.080 We talked about offensive key. Give me a defensive key 0:38:54.120 --> 0:38:55.160 for the Cowboys this week. 0:38:56.040 --> 0:38:59.440 Turn Sam howel Over he's prone. To give him the 0:38:59.480 --> 0:39:01.120 ball away. Get the pressure on him. 0:39:01.120 --> 0:39:02.400 He can do what he does right. He does not 0:39:02.400 --> 0:39:04.400 play well on the pressure. So easy formula. 0:39:04.440 --> 0:39:06.160 Get back there in the backfield, make him uncomfortable and 0:39:06.200 --> 0:39:07.919 take the ball away when you get the opportunities. 0:39:08.520 --> 0:39:11.000 Eric Bimmy doesn't want to run, but don't encourage him 0:39:11.000 --> 0:39:13.200 to run. You know, that's the thing about it. They 0:39:13.200 --> 0:39:14.840 do not want to hand that ball off. They like 0:39:14.880 --> 0:39:16.680 throwing the ball off. You talk to the people at 0:39:16.680 --> 0:39:19.120 the commanders, they'll tell you it's just a product the 0:39:19.160 --> 0:39:22.160 way that Eric is. And so yeah, I don't encourage 0:39:22.200 --> 0:39:24.319 them to even attempt to run the football in. 0:39:24.280 --> 0:39:29.680 This game, clean football. And I was thinking to the 0:39:29.719 --> 0:39:33.720 turnovers we saw, was it just one or two last week? 0:39:33.960 --> 0:39:36.360 To Seo and Jordan on the indust. 0:39:36.200 --> 0:39:39.480 Jordan and Jordan, I want to see that again. I 0:39:39.520 --> 0:39:41.640 think they do. Is one of those things we always 0:39:41.640 --> 0:39:44.160 say they come in bunches, and I think again, just 0:39:44.680 --> 0:39:47.480 put a bow tie on the season and get some 0:39:47.600 --> 0:39:48.960 turnovers in this game. 0:39:49.480 --> 0:39:50.840 All right, let's get to the picks. 0:39:51.960 --> 0:39:54.839 Let's start first with the Chicago at green Bay game. 0:39:54.840 --> 0:39:55.880 Who do you think is gonna win that? 0:39:56.719 --> 0:39:57.439 Uh? 0:39:57.640 --> 0:40:00.680 Green Bay didn't perform well against the Bears the first 0:40:00.719 --> 0:40:03.360 go round, but playoffs are on the line form, so 0:40:03.520 --> 0:40:04.600 green Bay takes it at home? 0:40:05.360 --> 0:40:10.080 Right, m broom Bay. I like groom Bay better. Just 0:40:10.480 --> 0:40:12.399 that's it. That's all I have to say. I think 0:40:12.560 --> 0:40:14.239 I just have a better feel for them. 0:40:14.719 --> 0:40:17.440 Repeat of the Lions Packers game of last year with 0:40:17.680 --> 0:40:19.319 green Bay having to win to get in. Give me 0:40:19.400 --> 0:40:19.920 the Bears. 0:40:21.440 --> 0:40:22.440 Take the Bears on that game. 0:40:22.480 --> 0:40:25.319 I think the Bears going into uh Lambeau. 0:40:25.000 --> 0:40:25.480 And get the win. 0:40:25.600 --> 0:40:25.920 All right. 0:40:25.960 --> 0:40:27.960 Seattle at Arizona. 0:40:29.840 --> 0:40:35.200 Arizona like that Giant Killers, I'm going with Seattle. 0:40:35.239 --> 0:40:38.640 I think Arizona. I think Arizona exhausted themselves against the 0:40:38.680 --> 0:40:40.000 Eagles and the Seahawks. 0:40:40.040 --> 0:40:42.279 They did the job they needed to do. 0:40:42.840 --> 0:40:44.640 Now have to win to at least have a shot 0:40:44.640 --> 0:40:46.720 at it. So yeah, give me the Seahawks. 0:40:46.760 --> 0:40:49.879 Yeah, Arizona was they won for their coach last week 0:40:49.960 --> 0:40:52.000 and so good for them for doing that, and good 0:40:52.000 --> 0:40:54.680 for the Cowboys for that as well. Give me the Seahawks. 0:40:55.000 --> 0:40:58.120 Yeah of course, I mean Seattle is someone competing actually 0:40:58.160 --> 0:40:59.080 for something. 0:40:59.200 --> 0:41:01.520 Yeah, I agree, see how see me Seahawks over the 0:41:01.560 --> 0:41:04.440 Arizona Cardinals. Le's goed Minnesota at Detroit. 0:41:06.560 --> 0:41:07.560 Detroit's angry. 0:41:08.080 --> 0:41:10.759 So yeah, Detroit just by virtue of Dan Campbell being 0:41:10.760 --> 0:41:15.440 pissed off. So he's pissed off last week. They're just 0:41:15.600 --> 0:41:19.320 Dan Dan's pissed off. And Minnesota is Minnesota. 0:41:19.480 --> 0:41:21.320 Minnesota's off the quarterback. 0:41:20.880 --> 0:41:23.240 To Yeah, yeah, no, it's Detroit. 0:41:23.239 --> 0:41:24.040 Then Mullin starting. 0:41:24.600 --> 0:41:26.120 It doesn't mean any one of. 0:41:26.040 --> 0:41:28.160 Them, Yeah, no telling who finishes. 0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:30.280 It's like we're gonna be Mullen. 0:41:30.360 --> 0:41:33.560 Yeah yeah Detroit. I mean that was embarrassing what happened. 0:41:33.719 --> 0:41:36.359 I mean, to lose a game like that, you gotta 0:41:36.400 --> 0:41:37.040 win this one. 0:41:37.440 --> 0:41:39.560 I agree, Detroit wins de troice the better team. Troit 0:41:39.560 --> 0:41:42.319 will won this game at home against Minnesota, right Philadelphia 0:41:42.440 --> 0:41:43.239 at New York. 0:41:44.280 --> 0:41:46.080 I'm going to stick to what I said I said 0:41:46.280 --> 0:41:48.360 a couple weeks ago. I think they split this this 0:41:48.400 --> 0:41:50.400 two game series with the Giants. So going with the 0:41:50.440 --> 0:41:51.680 Giants on this one. Let's stick with. 0:41:51.640 --> 0:41:52.200 That, right. 0:41:53.480 --> 0:41:56.359 I've been saying for the last two weeks, Philly, they're 0:41:56.360 --> 0:41:59.960 gonna win. I mean, it's it's time to win and gohold, 0:42:01.040 --> 0:42:03.600 well no, they're still in the playoffs. But uh, but 0:42:03.640 --> 0:42:06.200 then go home, but then go home. But yeah, it's 0:42:06.360 --> 0:42:08.239 it's hard still, it's it's still hard for me to 0:42:08.320 --> 0:42:10.880 visualize a win from the Giants. But at this point, 0:42:11.120 --> 0:42:12.600 I'm done picking the Eagles. 0:42:12.880 --> 0:42:15.319 Go Giants, Philadelphia, Philadelphia. 0:42:15.400 --> 0:42:18.160 Yeah, I'm kind of torn on this one. I kind 0:42:18.160 --> 0:42:19.799 of tend to believe the Giants is gonna win it 0:42:19.960 --> 0:42:22.040 just because I think the Giants are gonna come and 0:42:22.040 --> 0:42:23.800 give them a little bit of you know, that's always 0:42:23.880 --> 0:42:25.720 the worry is when you play these kind of games, 0:42:25.880 --> 0:42:28.160 some of what we're talking about with the Cowboys. Those 0:42:28.160 --> 0:42:30.840 teams have nothing to lose, so they'll throw everything at you. 0:42:30.920 --> 0:42:33.719 And I think the Giants are a team that mentally 0:42:33.880 --> 0:42:37.120 they're just more like we want to win this game, 0:42:37.160 --> 0:42:38.719 like they're gonna I think they will go into this 0:42:38.760 --> 0:42:41.279 game thinking as opposed to thinking, hey, the offseasons here. 0:42:41.280 --> 0:42:42.960 I think they're going to this game saying, let's go 0:42:42.960 --> 0:42:44.600 out with a win. And so I think They're gonna 0:42:44.600 --> 0:42:47.080 give them a really good effort, and Philly keeps doing 0:42:47.080 --> 0:42:50.000 the things they've been doing. Yeah, I think that's I 0:42:50.080 --> 0:42:52.960 think that's the way that they lose it. And and 0:42:53.000 --> 0:42:54.799 so I think I think New Yorkis will winning this game. 0:42:54.800 --> 0:42:56.879 All right, Let's get to the game of the week, 0:42:57.000 --> 0:42:58.280 Dallas at Washington. 0:42:58.640 --> 0:42:59.800 Who do you think wins that game? 0:43:00.320 --> 0:43:03.000 Commanders come out competitive, but Cowboys start to put their 0:43:03.000 --> 0:43:06.120 foot on the pedal, Commanders start making business decisions. Twenty 0:43:06.280 --> 0:43:07.040 seven to thirteen. 0:43:07.080 --> 0:43:12.319 Cowboys twenty eight thirteen, Dallas. 0:43:12.760 --> 0:43:21.160 Thirty twelve Cowboys. All right, safety involved in something, something weird. 0:43:21.200 --> 0:43:24.320 You know, we always experience something weird, especially. 0:43:23.920 --> 0:43:24.440 On that field. 0:43:24.520 --> 0:43:26.799 And I will go twenty eight ten. I think it 0:43:26.840 --> 0:43:28.560 will be. It will be a blowout. 0:43:28.640 --> 0:43:31.560 We'll get to wrap up early, go get our Johnny 0:43:31.640 --> 0:43:34.440 rockets and head onto the bush, get some jailr and 0:43:34.480 --> 0:43:37.600 head on back, head on back to Dallas. Just so 0:43:37.640 --> 0:43:39.799 everyone knows, here's kind of how you're thinking about this 0:43:39.800 --> 0:43:43.400 this weekend. Green Bay wins and Dallas wins. That is 0:43:43.440 --> 0:43:46.000 your first round matchup at at and T Stadium, however, 0:43:46.320 --> 0:43:49.160 and we're assuming Dallas wins. However, if they don't win. 0:43:49.200 --> 0:43:51.839 If green Bay loses, then it goes to Seattle. If 0:43:51.880 --> 0:43:55.000 Seattle wins, Seattle is in Seattle would be the matchup 0:43:55.160 --> 0:43:58.760 for the Cowboys. If Seattle doesn't win, then it goes 0:43:58.960 --> 0:44:00.680 to Minesta. 0:44:00.680 --> 0:44:01.960 I think is the next one. 0:44:02.239 --> 0:44:04.640 That would then have an opportunity. As we talked about, 0:44:04.719 --> 0:44:06.919 likely they're gonna win, but they do have a chance 0:44:06.920 --> 0:44:10.200 at that point, and then you'd see what happens at 0:44:10.239 --> 0:44:13.759 that point. But really it's the Chicago, Seattle, Minnesota. Those 0:44:13.760 --> 0:44:15.640 are three teams that are in contention. I think is 0:44:15.680 --> 0:44:17.600 the top three options to play the Cowboy. 0:44:18.000 --> 0:44:19.759 Can I read it? I'll read it for you. You're 0:44:19.800 --> 0:44:22.800 right here. We go the opponent, if it's the Rams, 0:44:23.120 --> 0:44:25.440 that would be Rams lose to forty nine ers. Seattle 0:44:25.480 --> 0:44:30.200 beats Arizona, Packers beat Bears. Say again, Rams lose to 0:44:30.719 --> 0:44:36.719 San Francisco. Seattle beats Arizona, Packers beat Bears. That's how 0:44:36.719 --> 0:44:40.800 you get the Rams. Ye, Seattle opponent, Seattle beats Arizona. 0:44:40.840 --> 0:44:42.000 Say Packers beat Rams. 0:44:43.400 --> 0:44:49.080 Uh, Packers lose Packers, Packs Packers beat Bears. Rams lose 0:44:49.120 --> 0:44:51.640 to forty forty nine ers. Oh, I got you, yes, 0:44:51.719 --> 0:44:54.919 yes for them to the Rams lose to forty nine Ers. 0:44:55.160 --> 0:45:01.440 Seattle beats Arizona Packers beat the Bears. Seattle, Seattle beats 0:45:01.480 --> 0:45:08.240 Arizona Packers lose to Bears. Packers, Packers beat Bears, Rams 0:45:08.520 --> 0:45:15.520 beat forty nine Ers, Saints, Saints beat Atlanta Cardinals beat Seattle, 0:45:16.160 --> 0:45:17.520 Bears beat Packers. 0:45:18.239 --> 0:45:20.520 There's sure got it, So Seattle, what you're saying is 0:45:20.640 --> 0:45:23.920 the Saints are ahead of the Minnesota in the possibilities 0:45:23.920 --> 0:45:25.480 of getting it, but they need other people to. 0:45:27.160 --> 0:45:27.319 Win. 0:45:27.520 --> 0:45:29.640 They need to win, and a Cardinal win and a 0:45:29.640 --> 0:45:31.000 Bears win gotta get in. 0:45:31.120 --> 0:45:32.160 Yeah, got it? 0:45:32.560 --> 0:45:34.719 And that doesn't matter with Seattle. I mean, I'm sorry 0:45:34.760 --> 0:45:36.080 what happened with the Rams. 0:45:36.800 --> 0:45:40.200 This is your opponent. These are your cowboy possible opponents. 0:45:40.360 --> 0:45:40.680 Got it. 0:45:42.040 --> 0:45:44.440 I'll have to think about that. Well. 0:45:44.480 --> 0:45:46.279 Either way, as we were talking, when we're talking about 0:45:46.280 --> 0:45:48.440 the Rams a little bit earlier, cowboys did beat the 0:45:48.520 --> 0:45:50.160 Rams and beat them soundly at home. 0:45:50.440 --> 0:45:53.040 So if you gotta play the Rams, you'll be all right. 0:45:53.440 --> 0:45:54.000 You can deal with it. 0:45:54.760 --> 0:45:55.160 You can do it. 0:45:55.160 --> 0:45:56.319 I don't care. You can deal with it. You can 0:45:56.360 --> 0:45:57.919 do it. I'm not gonna let you do this to me, Brian. 0:45:58.239 --> 0:46:01.360 No, if they can do this, this is not a problem. 0:46:01.440 --> 0:46:03.160 First round is not a problem to be able to 0:46:03.160 --> 0:46:03.600 handle that. 0:46:04.520 --> 0:46:05.040 Stop it. 0:46:05.320 --> 0:46:07.879 I know, I'm just trying to. I don't. I don't 0:46:07.880 --> 0:46:09.000 want to see that. I just don't. 0:46:09.400 --> 0:46:13.279 I just don't come Yeah, right, I'd rather see any 0:46:13.320 --> 0:46:15.400 of those other teams than the Rams. But if it's 0:46:15.440 --> 0:46:18.560 the Ram car, all right, come on Bears, all right, 0:46:18.600 --> 0:46:21.160 appreciate you guys. So we'll be back on Monday. Hopefully 0:46:21.200 --> 0:46:25.080 we'll be back after a trip to that stage. Jimmy Rockham, 0:46:25.640 --> 0:46:27.719 we'll be back on Monday. So then for Patrick Walker, 0:46:27.760 --> 0:46:29.719 Brian brought us ambergar C to Derek eagletson. This has 0:46:29.760 --> 0:46:31.960 been the Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:46:32.640 --> 0:46:35.600 This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:46:35.800 --> 0:46:38.760 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.